Jurgen Klopp has insisted he's dreamt of far bigger miracles that Liverpool snatching a top four finish this season.

And that is the German's way of saying that the six-point gap which separates them from Manchester's City and United – and a Champions League place – is far from unbridgeable with 11 games still to go.

Many people have dismissed the Reds' chances of earning a place at Europe's high table next season through the Premier League, and have instead urged the manager to concentrate on winning the Europa League, which would also deliver a Champions League place.

Boss Klopp, though, argues that he cannot pick and choose when to perform and when not, and instead wants his side to once again find the anger that brought them victory over Man City in midweek and use it to deliver more consistent performances.

“I don't know whether I believe we can make top four, but I've thought about bigger wonders in life than this!” he said.

Share this video

Watch Next

“We can only go in the top four, at this moment, if the others makes mistake. We have to do everything right and they have to make mistakes. You can say it doesn't look like we can make it, but they have already made some mistakes.

“That is how it is, sometimes things do happen — teams do make mistakes. So we have to take points consistently, and we can watch the table, and if something happens then we can judge if we can make it, and think something new about being in the top four.”

What Klopp promised though, was that Liverpool will not take their foot off the gas domestically to save themselves for a shot at European glory... and the last chance of a trophy they have this season.

He wants his side to show the fire that was on display as they bounced back after being denied the Capital One Cup on penalties by City in the worst possible way - a penalty shoot-out - to beat them in the league three days later.

“Angriness in a sport is good. If you can strike back, there is always a reason,” he said.

“Against Crystal Palace, there is a reason to strike back... a lot of reasons to be angry.

"Crystal Palace were a really physical side against us [when they won 2-1 at Anfield in November]. They will give you, in the first two minutes, 500 reasons to be angry. You have to take the chance for this.

“We need physicality. You can’t go to Palace and say, 'We will play a little bit of football.' I hope we can say [we are suited to being physical]. I can only hope we will be like that in the future. I really believe in this team. We have to be angry.”

“I don't believe that football works like this — that we can pick out one tournament and say, 'Come on, the rest is s**t,'" he said.

“We only have, for sure, two games in the Europa League — even though of course we want more, and the Premier we still have 11. So of course we should still be concentrating on the Premier League and the top four.”